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Friday - December 12, 2008

Odd yellow flowers

While I was visiting the folks in Silver City this summer, we took a trip to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. Along the way, we spotted several bunches of some really weird yellow flowers. Well, the flowers aren't so weird...more like the stalks upon which they dwell. To wit:

And:

And, another:

I also spotted some wild-life:

Cool, eh? And, a bit weird? Yep.

PS: Happy birthday, Esther!

UPDATE. Mom to the rescue again! These bizarre plants are known as Great (or perhaps Common) Mullein; and, more formally, as verbascum thapsus.

Posted by Joanna at 12:07 AM

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